Jeffrey Phillips

Jeffrey Phillips
VP Marketing
OVO Innovation

Jeffrey Phillips is a senior consultant and VP Marketing for OVO Innovation. OVO Innovation is a leading innovation consulting firm, focused on defining repeatable, sustainable innovation processes in Fortune 500 businesses.

Jeffrey has led innovation projects for a number of Fortune 500 firms, including Hewlett-Packard, John Deere, GSK, T. Rowe Price, WellPoint, Raytheon, AIG, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Jude Medical and U.S. Bank. Additionally, Jeffrey has led innovation training programs for these clients and in universities in the US, including the University of North Carolina, Georgetown, Duke, the University of Texas, Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and the University of the Pacific. With the University of the Pacific OVO has led training programs in China as well. Jeffrey has been a featured speaker on innovation topics in Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Mexico.

Publications
Jeffrey has published two books about innovation. His most recent book, published in 2011, is entitled Relentless Innovation(http://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Innovation-Works-Doesn-2019t-Business/d...). Relentless Innovation attempts to understand why some firms (3M, P&G, Apple) can sustain innovation over a long period of time, while most firms innovation sporadically if at all. His first book, a guidebook for individuals who find themselves leading innovation efforts in larger organizations is entitled Make us more Innovative. You can find that book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Make-more-Innovative-Critical-Innovation/dp/059548...

Jeffrey and his partners at OVO have published a number of papers on innovation topics in the Harvard Management Update, in Digital Magazine and in the International Journal of Innovation Science. Jeffrey is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Innovation Science and regularly reviews articles for publication.

Additionally, Jeffrey writes the influential blog Innovate on Purpose, which is regularly cited as one of the best blogs on innovation on the web.

Before starting OVO Innovation, Jeffrey has worked in large consulting organizations focused on enterprise strategy and process improvement, and in high technology firms such as Texas Instruments. Jeffrey has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an engineering degree from the University of Virginia.

Posts by Jeffrey Phillips

Relentless Innovation - Why trusted management tools block innovation efforts

Management tools like outsourcing, Lean and Six Sigma create highly efficient operating models that aren't flexible and aren't nimble. They reject variance, risk and uncertainty, which leads them to reject innovation.

Relentless Innovation - The only two innovation barriers that matter

Which two factors help achieve short-term financial goals and become barriers to innovation? "Business as usual" and middle managers. When appropriately aligned, however, they accelerate innovation.

Relentless Innovation - Debunking the myths

Business mythology holds that innovation success is due to factors such as executive leadership, specific business models or competitive factors with an industry. Looking at several Relentless Innovators and examining these myths, you can discover that many of the myths fall away when closely examined.

Relentless Innovation - Building a Consistent Innovation Discipline

Only a few key attributes within any business dictate its ability to innovate successfully over time, and those factors are already in place in every organization.

Innovate Your Purpose As Well As Your Products

Consider your purpose, as well as your products, as you make plans for your business to weather changing times and economic uncertainty.

Innovation: It takes a village

Should You Outsource Innovation?

Getting Beyond the Right Answer

One of the challenges for innovation, whether in academia or in business, is the focus on getting to the "right answer." And worse, when we constantly focus on finding the "right answer," we miss the opportunity for discovery that exists all around us.

Crossing the Innovation Chasm(s)

Despite good intentions from CEOs, innovation efforts fail because of two big gaps — lack of clear communication from the top down and lack of organizational follow-through.

Ambidextrous Leaders Needed for Innovation

We need managers who are good at efficiency and effectiveness on the one hand and creativity, innovation, and growth on the other.

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